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Teri Hatcher (Suan Mayer) has often said that she was "has-been" before the success of Desperate Housewives. But talking to chat show host Jonathan Ross yesterday, she said that this was partially because of her choice to raise her daughter Emmerson.

"After I did Lois and Clark I [disappeared]," she told Ross while appearing on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. "I stopped and raised my child. I was raised with a mom who worked, and felt she had to work, and I always sort of thought if I was lucky enough to have a child that I wanted to be home. And that's what I did. Not to be a big hero about it, when I did try to go back Hollywood wasn't so interested."

Hatcher said she had been working on potential projects for about a year before landing the role of Susan Mayer. "I'd been starting to put myself out there I guess for about a year, had some ideas that I'd sold, and was kind of trying to write a sitcom, and sort of stumbling along with a little bit of success but not really. Then this part came across my desk in pilot season, I read it and loved it and just went after it was lucky." While Hatcher was impressed with the script, she didn't try to predict whether it'd be a big success or not. "I don't know if you ever think something's really going to be a hit because there's so many things that go into that that are really beyond your control. But what I did think it was one of the best things i'd ever read."

Ross asked Hatcher if being a mother helped her land the role, but Hatcher said she felt it was more than that. "I think what I was able to bring to this in the audition process and the in the role," she explained, "that was different and that they responded to—and maybe had something to do with motherhood—was just kind of the vulnerability, and flawed, screwball everything-goes-wrong [personality]. People hadn't seem me do that before, so I think it was unexpected out of me."

Hatcher appeared in the show, which aired on Friday 10 June 2005, alongside stars such as Charlotte Church and Live8 organizer Bob Geldof. The show also aired a small clip of Desperate Housewives during Hatcher's interview of Susan being locked outside of her house naked. Ross told viewers that Desperate Housewives will be re-run during the summer on Channel 4 and E4.

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